In the News

Press coverage of the Society and its activities

The L-3 spectrometer moves to McMaster

In mid-July 2026 the Canadian Nuclear Heritage Museum (CNHM) hosted two researchers from the Canadian...

Early Housing in Deep River

This is the second of the extractions from the Gord Powell memoires “A Quarter Century...

A Quarter Century Among the Blackflies

The Canadian Nuclear Heritage Museum recently received a copy of the unpublished memoir of Gordon...

Inducing colour in gemstones

Two of the more popular gemstones, diamond and topaz, are usually colourless when found in...

The Rolphton Nuclear Training Center

The startup of the Nuclear Power Demonstration (NPD) reactor at Rolphton in 1962 was quickly...

Dating with Isotopes

Most of the population have some concept, if not detailed knowledge, of “radiocarbon dating”. The...

CAN-DECON – an AECL success story

One of the problems that occurs in nuclear power stations is the accumulation of radioactive...

The 1983 G-16 problem at Pickering Nuclear Generating Station

On August 01 1983, a sudden heavy water leak from one of the 390 fuel...

Candid cold fusion

Nuclear fusion as an energy source is in the news a lot these days, reminding...

Fishy uses of strontium

Strontium, when discussed in a nuclear context, generally has a negative connotation. The isotope Sr-90...

Witness to a Hurricane

We’ve come to know Ray Morrison and his wife Sharon over the last couple of...

Plant Road goes to Bay Street

The year was 1985 and the first of the Mulroney budget cuts had arrived. Those...

The craft of glassblowing

The start of the nuclear age brought with it the need for complex chemistry techniques...

Insect control via irradiation

I recently stumbled upon an article in the March 23, 1959, issue of the North...

The ZEBRA project

The late 1970s saw an optimistic future for the world economies. However, the OECD (Organization...